On 22 Dec 2016 07:31 +1100, from dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
> Relevance to Unix? Well, without the world's first usable computer we
> would not have the world's first usable OS, and M$ would probably reign
> supreme by now...
Just imagine how differently things would have turned out had a major
software company, in the dawn of the 1980s, decided to seriously
pursue its UNIX variant rather than a clone of CP/M as it turned out.
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